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Notes on the Churches 



S. Peter's. Great Cheverell. 



This Church, like the last, is dedicated to S. Peter. It consists 

 of nave with south porch, chancel and western tower, with a chapel 

 on the south side of the nave and a modern vestry. 



The side walls of the chancel are of early thirteenth century date, 

 and the facing is a good though unusually late specimen of flint- 

 work laid in herring-bone pattern. The lancets in the north and 

 south walls of the chancel are original ; the other window on the 

 south side, the priest's door, and the piscina are Perpendicular in- 

 sertions. The recessed tomb in the north wall of the chancel is 

 coeval with the earlier work and is probably that of the founder or 

 some great benefactor of the Church. It may, possibly, however, 

 have been the Easter Sepulchre. The east wall has been rebuilt. 



The nave, porch and chapel are coeval, and were erected in the 

 best period of the Perpendicular — about 1460. All the windows 

 are square-headed, with good mouldings and tracery. Both nave 

 and chapel have their original roofs, that of the nave being of the 

 waggon-head or barrel-vault form, like the one at Imber, with 

 plaster-pauels, the ribs being moulded and having carved bosses at 

 the intersections. The roof of the chapel is of flat span form, richer 

 and more massive, the timbers being moulded and the bosses carved. 

 The inscription " W.S. 1699 " on the east boss has no reference to 

 the date of the structure. The window and other features at the 

 east end have been destroyed to give access to the modern vestry. 



The tower appears to have been added after the nave was built, 

 but it is very little later in style. 



The font is a modern one; it would be interesting to know what 

 has become of the old one. There are some late memorial 

 inscriptions cut on the outside of the east wall of the chapel. 



East Coulston. 



This is one of the three Churches in Wiltshire dedicated in the 

 name of S. Thomas a. Becket ; and it is of earlier foundation than 

 any other Church in to-day's programme. It consists of nave and 

 chancel with a chapel on the north side of the latter. 



On the south side of the nave there is a good specimen of a 



